Temple eos looms



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEErcE.

JERBLIIAH C. TILTON, OF SANBORNTON BRIDGE, NEW' HAMPSHIRE.

TEMPLE FOR LOOIVIS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 22,594, dated January l1, 1859.

To all whom 'it may concern:

y Be it known that I, JEREMIAH C. TILToN, of Sanbornton Bridge, in the county of Belknap and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Loom-Temples; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and representedv in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l, denotes a top view; Fig. 2, a front elevation, and Fig. 3, a rear elevation of one of my improved temples. Fig. 4, is a top view of it as it appears with its cloth bearer carrier turned back so as to expose the inclined spurs or points to view. Fig. 5, is a. longitudinal section taken through the spring and the cloth bearer carrier to be hereinafter described:

In the drawings, A, represents the supporting arm by which the temple is con nected with the breast-beam. This arm sustains a long spring, B, fastened to it by screws, a, a, such spring carrying on or near its outer end, and upon its upper surface, a series of spurs or points, b, b, I), each of which is not only inclined at angle of about 450 to the plane of the top surface of the spring, but makes an acute angle with the front edge of the spring and with the general line of direction in which the lay beats or moves; this latter line being indicated by a red line marked in Fig. LL.

During the movement of the cloth through the temple, while such cloth is being moved, it (the cloth) is strained in two directions, that is it is contracted or drawn in the line of the temple spring and is forced back in a line at right angles thereto. I arrange each tooth or spur in neither of these directions, but in or about in a line which may be supposed to stand at or about at a right angle with the direction ofthe resultant of the forces acting on the cloth. By this means, when the lay beats up, the cloth delivers easily from the points or spurs and is not liable to slip off the same at other times.

The cloth bearer which extends over the points or spurs is represented at C, as supported by a bar or carrier D, which is hinged to the arm A, as shown at 7L, and so as to be capable of being moved backward from the spring or into a position as shown in Fig. A screw, rf, passes upward through the said carrier, and enters .a recess, z, made in the spring as shown in Fig. 5. These contrivances, viz, the screw and the recess, serve to stop the carrier, when moved forward far enough to carry the points of the spurs directly underneath the cloth bearer. The screw also serves not only as a fulcrum to the spring but as a means of regulating the distance between the underside of the cloth bearer and the points of the spurs in order to accommodate the temple to cloth of any thickness may be woven.

By the above described mode of applying the carrier of the cloth bearer to the arm, A, the former may be readily forced backward either to loosen the cloth from it, when the loom is not in operation or in case, a shuttle should be estopped between its boxes during its flight on the race beam or lay.

I do not claim the mere application of teeth to a spring to be forced away from the temple lip or cloth bearer by the action of a wedge or its equivalent at the time of beating up of the loom as such is found in the well known Stillman temple. Nor do I claim the application of a stationary spur plate to a temple with the pins in the said plate inclined at an angle to the breast beam and in the direction in which the lay beats up, the same being shown in the United States Patent numbered nine thousand nine hundred, and for the purpose therein mention, but,

lhat I do claim is* The application of the cloth bearer carrier to its support by a hinge arranged in manner substantially as described, that is so as to allow the carrier, and its bearer to be driven backward under circumstances as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature.

JEREMIAH C. TILTON.

Witnesses z R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

